Coker College - Milestone Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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Di to Right: The Judges: Mrs. B. Timmons, Mr. W. Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Coker, Mr. John Bean. Dean Kuehner crowns Cutie Queen Fran Moore and Beauty Queen Martha Dean Chestnut. eauty — Clie ontest One chilled night in autumn, a large crowd filed anx- iously into the-college auditorium. It was the night of the Beauty-Cutie Contest. Every club and organization on campus had chosen a beauty and cutie to represent it. As the students came in they were given a ballot on which to vote for the cuties. The beauty judges were al- ready in their seats. At last the curtain rose and the cuties, dressed casually in skirts and sweaters, were first on stage. Each was heralded by a jingle composed by her sponsor. As the girls stepped gaily across the stage, each with her own special smile, the audience became more and more puzzled as to whom to vote for the “cutest.” Then, heard softly in the background, was the music of “A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody,” and our parade of beauties began. Each girl was poised, graceful, dignified, and charming—the ingredients which make up beauty. As each girl came the judges’ task grew progressively harder. When the contest was over, the audience left as it had entered—in an atmosphere of suspense. The deci- sion of the judges would not be announced until the Christmas Dance. There were some exciting moments at this dance as we watched the Pershing Rifle Platoon from Clemson per- form and then form an arch of crossed swords. Through this arch the queens and their courts came forward. It was a thrilling event as Dean Kuehner crowned Miss Martha Dean Chestnut, Miss South Carolina of 1956 and Miss Dixie of 1957, as Coker’s own beauty queen. Miss Fran Moore, cutie from the Sophomore class, was crowned cutie queen. These queens, with their courts, formed an array of beauty which made this special evening a perfect one. First Row: Odom, Sawyer, Phillips, Parker, Parsons, Chestnut, McGuirt, Norris, Cothran, Long. Second Row: Baty Rey pola Duke, Davis, Clark, eae Bennett. a

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ty ree s 3 a 7S Standing: Elizabeth Bakis, Louise Atkinson, Mary Oates, Vivian Ruthven. Bertha Mae Drose, Pat Hamilton, Charlotte Reaves. Seated: Anne McGuirt Mas ourt en ot = woe he |ubilees ..: Jazz Syarthe Wedding .., all is viewed by Queen Marian and her Court. 81

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